Angele - Nonante-Cliq LP (Canada Pressing)

The Belgian singer’s second album explores her gift for imbuing joyful, self-possessed dance pop with bittersweet emotion. Her second album, Nonante-Cinq, abandons some of the more superficial pop trappings of her debut, 2018’s Brol, in favor of melancholy, weaving heartbreak, nostalgia, and apprehension into house-inspired dance tracks and carefully produced piano ballads. The album oscillates between effervescent synth-pop and theatrical anguish, all with a singular emotional thread: Love hurts.